If you live where I live (or somewhere like it) you probably look at commercials & TV shows about people going to the DMV with hours and hours of wait time with disbelief. Our DMV is tiny, and there is never a wait. Well, I take that back, sometimes I have to wait for 1 person.
Never-the-less, it still an undesirable errand. It is undesirable because taking small children in and out of the car for such a short errand is annoying. Similar errands include: the bank, the post office, and filling prescriptions (luckily we have a drive-thru now!). However undesirable it is, yearly it as to be done.
And so a few weeks ago I set out to renew my tabs, as well as Ryan's tabs. It was a gray day. I was a little crabby. The kids were behaving nicely. I renewed my tabs. Just as we were about to go back out to the car. It started thundering...and pouring. (Thunder, really, in March??) So we waited.
Now, I don't know about you, but when I renew my tabs, if I don't IMMEDIATELY put them on my car, they sit around for another month at least before they get put on. Well, when it's raining you can't put your tabs on. So I didn't. The rain let up and we ventured onward to the grocery store, then home. I left the tabs in the car so I would remember to put them on.
A couple of days later I had to drive someone someplace (who really remembers where), so I cleaned out my car. The next day, I went to put my tabs on my car. Aw, crap. In the garbage, in the dumpster... So I dug into the dumpster till I found my tabs (& Ryan's tabs). For who knows what reason (screaming kids, or something) I didn't put my tabs on the car. I brought them in the house and put them on the counter.
The next week we were having company so I had to clean my house. Guess what? I cleaned everything off of the counter. On Monday I had a sudden moment of freak-out realizing I once again had thrown my tabs away. I dug through the dumpster AGAIN. Seriously gross. But I found them!!
And they are now on my car. :) I shouldn't have done it on a rainy day!!
5 comments:
Oh ick. How gross. Don't worry though, you're not the only one digging through garbage to look for something. I thought I threw a check out last week, and after going through bags of trash and recycling, Josh found it -- pinned to our bulletin board. ;)
That's excellent D!!
I can totally relate! I think if you dislike clutter, you've probably done this more than once. I still don't think Dave has forgiven me for the time I threw away some of his birthday money. Hey, if you leave your birthday money in a card on the kitchen counter for like 2 weeks, consider it gone, buster! ;)
In middle school I dumped my tray and threw away one of my mom's necklaces (don't ask me why I had taken it off, and placed in the tray of all places). Now digging through that was pretty nasty!
I thought this post was going to end with you getting pulled over...glad to hear you didn't have to deal with that! : )
classic.
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